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Towermen beats DC Express in a quarters but falls to Sweetlax in the semis. LE loses a close one to the Crabs in the quarters. Not a bad showing for NJ in one of the toughest 2026 tournaments of the summer!

BBL look decent?

BBL weakest of the 3 for the 2026 class.

TMEN and LE I think are a pick ‘em .

Twmen sure talk a lot more than they win!

Looks like they had a good weekend.

A one off team “program” is risky as they approach the High-school circuit. There is no history or track record when it comes to recruiting.

Towermen is a 2026 team it doesn’t make sense to say they do it every year.
They can stay together and get into good showcases together they don’t need to leave, coaches will watch them. My son doesn’t play for either team btw.

You are ignorant and must be drinking the LE and BBL kool aid. 1. The best players in the nation get found, regardless of club team. 2. The Turtles from LI was a originally a one off team that had 10 plus high level D1 recruits from its first team. 3. Club team choice have much less impact than showcases and prospect days. 4. Keep paying triple what we pay and watch what happens with our top boys on Sept 1 2024. And by the way we are 16-1 in our last 17 games. How has your team done? Suckers.

Keep drinking the club lax kool aid my man

Do you have an older kid or are you basing this on what your coach is telling you?

They will not get recruited playing in the cupcake tournaments they play in.

TMEN and LE I think are a pick ‘em .[/quote]

Twmen sure talk a lot more than they win![/quote]

Looks like they had a good weekend.

A one off team “program” is risky as they approach the High-school circuit. There is no history or track record when it comes to recruiting.[/quote]

You are ignorant and must be drinking the LE and BBL kool aid. 1. The best players in the nation get found, regardless of club team. 2. The Turtles from LI was a originally a one off team that had 10 plus high level D1 recruits from its first team. 3. Club team choice have much less impact than showcases and prospect days. 4. Keep paying triple what we pay and watch what happens with our top boys on Sept 1 2024. And by the way we are 16-1 in our last 17 games. How has your team done? Suckers.[/quote]
Do you have an older kid or are you basing this on what your coach is telling you?[/quote]

This will be our last season at the program. Our team does not play against hard teams or tournaments except one every year. We should be playing against the best regularly. We dont. We are not getting better playing scrimmages against own team.

Twmen sure talk a lot more than they win![/quote]

Looks like they had a good weekend.

A one off team “program” is risky as they approach the High-school circuit. There is no history or track record when it comes to recruiting.[/quote]

You are ignorant and must be drinking the LE and BBL kool aid. 1. The best players in the nation get found, regardless of club team. 2. The Turtles from LI was a originally a one off team that had 10 plus high level D1 recruits from its first team. 3. Club team choice have much less impact than showcases and prospect days. 4. Keep paying triple what we pay and watch what happens with our top boys on Sept 1 2024. And by the way we are 16-1 in our last 17 games. How has your team done? Suckers.[/quote]
Do you have an older kid or are you basing this on what your coach is telling you?[/quote]

This will be our last season at the program. Our team does not play against hard teams or tournaments except one every year. We should be playing against the best regularly. We dont. We are not getting better playing scrimmages against own team.[/quote]

Haha. Nice try troll!! See you at Nap Town!

The best players get found regardless of the club despite what LE and BBL directors tell you. Perfect example: Brad Smith (Lakes, Duke, PLL) played for STEPS. Many D1 commits are found at showcases and prospect camps. The clubs will take credit for every commit they have and probably didn’t do much of anything to help most of those kids get committed. Active top 30 D1 head coach advice to my son: good grades is going to open up your options. Play for the best club team you can play for while also getting meaningful minutes. If you aren’t playing you aren’t going to get better or get seen. Attend a showcase or two as a rising 10th grader and a few more as a rising 11th grader but prospect days are best way to be seen by coaches you want to play for. And finally, it’s the work you do between practices that makes the biggest difference between a good player and a great player.

T-men have beaten Hawks, Tigers, LI Express, and Sweetlax over the last couple seasons. Went 4-1 over the weekend. Say what you like but they are well coached and compete with (and beat) top level talent.

It was a troll post. Best to ignore. Tmen have proven themselves as a top 10 team for 2026 and I don’t think anyone can argue with that.

Your example using Brad smith is pretty bad. Steps was a good program led by 4 HOF worthy NJ HCs from delby, summit, lakes and formerly of SHP. Sometimes your HS coach matters in recruiting.

Ok. Eliminate that one example from my post. Fair enough. Will you try to dispute the rest of the post?

Haha. Nice try troll. NAL, Millon, Nap town, Primetime. Name one tourney better than those other than NLF where we are black balled by LE. You must play for Bbl lost.

Let the haters detest. Just show them the scoreboard.

It's 8th grade lacrosse lol

Personality disorder on display might be the reason for no invite?

Nah, probably just fear of losing. Very funny quip though.

They will not get recruited playing in the cupcake tournaments they play in.[/quote]

Haha. Nice try troll. NAL, Millon, Nap town, Primetime. Name one tourney better than those other than NLF where we are black balled by LE. You must play for Bbl lost.[/quote]

Let the haters detest. Just show them the scoreboard.[/quote]
It's 8th grade lacrosse lol[/quote]

Personality disorder on display might be the reason for no invite?[/quote]

Nah, probably just fear of losing. Very funny quip though.[/quote]

My kid also leaving. Not enough scrimmaging or tournaments. Want LE recruiting.Was fun until the world series fiasco.

What was the Towermen fiasco with the World Series? Are you referring to the fact that they didn’t qualify?

I think it was the fact that they finished 5th overall. And went 4-1 in their bracket beating the Midwest Qualifier Champion and the Southern one as well.

LE crushed it at the World Series.. wait nevermind… no one age qualifies. But they will get better once they reclass 5 seniors. Total development model.

The best part of Leading Edge is asking 2 2026 lacrosse players to play on their 2027 team even though they actually did not change grades. “Reclassing in lacrosse only”… heck yeah…Sharpening iron right there.

Nah nah you trippin

TM insecurity is funny.

Forget about reclasses, everyone is doing it.

LE has best track record in nj. 6 of last 7 player of the years in NJ.
Consistently have very very strong recruiting classes. Hard to argue that.
If your at Towermen, you have no reason to detest on LE. Both have strong teams.

Totally! Pointing out flagrant cheating absolutely wreaks of insecurity.

Nobody is hatin. Just calling out a program that breaks the rules. Those kids didn’t reclass. They were dropped to 2027 team but are going into 9th grade.

Almost as bad as playing in tournaments as a different team name to avoid hurting club lax rankings. (That mean nothing)

I am sorry but you are bragging about the World Series of youth lacrosse. I see you are new to this club lacrosse world.

I will inform you… that tournament is a joke money grab.

Was your son nominated to the ALL WORLD TEAM!!!?


I heard TMen 2035 is ranked top 17 in the NATION according to us club lax instagram page!

Nah. Not even close actually.

Lots of LE folks on this board. Can anyone confirm if this is true?

I'm not a fan of holdbacks, but it's not against the rules so I don't complain. That is assuming that you're actually reclassed in school. If these kids were in 8th grade this year and played in a 2027 tourney this weekend, that's wrong.

What's the scoop LE folks?

Forget about reclasses, everyone is doing it.

LE has best track record in nj. 6 of last 7 player of the years in NJ.
Consistently have very very strong recruiting classes. Hard to argue that.
If your at Towermen, you have no reason to detest on LE. Both have strong teams.[/quote]

Nobody is hatin. Just calling out a program that breaks the rules. Those kids didn’t reclass. They were dropped to 2027 team but are going into 9th grade.[/quote]



Almost as bad as playing in tournaments as a different team name to avoid hurting club lax rankings. (That mean nothing)[/quote]

Whats the scoop TM folks?

On behalf on the Tmen folks, that secondary team is coached by a Dad. The roster changes every tourney. It consists of Tmen players, LE players, BBL players, Step players and even Upper level guys. They are 9-0 and currently ranked in the 20s separately.

Yes it would not be right for us to use those scores for our rankings whether it helps us or hurts us considering that team is a combo of all those different clubs.

That can be validated by the 2 championship photos they have won. You can see the different helmets of the different players.

The fact that you are bringing up “rankings” shows that your new to this world. I sympathize with you for your lack of knowledge, but it will come with time.

What high school are the Tmen all going too?

Mtn Lakes, Summit, SHP, DB, BC mainly